Rhonda Abrams: Balancing home and work-life challenging

12:20 PM,
Jul. 23, 2013

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Rhonda Abrams
Gannett

Work-life balance: Everyone wants it, but is it achievable - especially when you run a small business?

The topic has been hot this year in particular. When new mother Marissa Mayer took the reins at Yahoo then banned employees working from home, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told women to "lean in," the conversation about how to handle the demands of both home and work became impassioned.

But that conversation centered on work-life balance for people who work as employees. Almost no one addresses how truly challenging it is to balance the demands of family and work when you run your own small ...